Eduardo Marques
Trustee 2012-2019
Eduardo Marques is professor at the Department of Political Science (DCP) and Director of the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CEM) at the University of São Paulo (USP), where he develops investigations on public policies, social inequalities, especially in urban contexts. He holds a degree in Civil/Hydraulic Engineering (UFRJ), specialization in public health (Fiocruz), MSc in Urban and Regional Planning (UFRJ), PhD in Social Sciences (Unicamp), and a post-doctorate (Cebrap), with longer research periods at Sciences Po Paris, University College London and University of California Berkeley. He is one of the editors of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR), a member of the editorial board of the Urban Affairs Review, and a principal investigator at Fapesp and a CNPq Scholar. He has authored many articles and books about urban politics and politics, more recently “The Politics of Incremental Progressivism Governments, Governances and Urban Policy Changes in São Paulo (Wiley/SUSC-IJURR, 2021).
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Fulong Wu
Trustee 2010-2015
Fulong Wu is Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London. His research interests include urban development in China and its social and sustainable challenges. He is the author of Planning for Growth: Urban and Regional Planning in China (Routledge, 2015), Creating Chinese Urbanism: Urban Revolution and Governance Change (UCL Press, 2022, free downloadable from the publisher’s website, www.uclpress.co.uk/ChineseUrbanism), co-editor (with Roger Keil) of After Suburbia: Urbanization in the 21st Century (Toronto University Press, 2022) and co-editor (with Fangzhu Zhang) of Handbook on China’s Urban Environmental Governance (Edward Elgar 2023). His recent co-authored book is Governing Urban Development in China: Critical Urban Studies (with Professor Fangzhu Zhang, Routledge, 2025).
He was former editor of International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. He is the principal investigator of a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant – Rethinking China’s Model of Urban Governance.
Matthew Gandy
Trustee 2010-2013
Matthew Gandy is Professor of Geography at the University of Cambridge and an award-winning documentary film maker. He previously worked at University College London where he was founder and first director of the UCL Urban Laboratory. He has published articles in many leading journals including IJURR, New Left Review, and Society and Space. His books include Concrete and clay: reworking nature in New York City (MIT Press, 2002), The fabric of space: water, modernity, and the urban imagination (MIT Press, 2014), Moth (Reaktion, 2016), and Natura urbana: ecological constellations in urban space (MIT Press, 2022). He is currently working on zoonotic aspects to urban epidemiology as part of a wider conceptual framing for the multispecies city.